Humphrey's Pub in Merrill featured in book on Wisconsin taverns, breweries

11:11 PM,
Nov. 10, 2012

John and Beth Humphrey own Humphrey's Pub in Merrill.

Written by

Jeff Starck
Wausau Daily Herald

A failed marriage in 1916 might have helped preserve a tavern that has been part of the Merrill bar scene for 105 years.

What Ole and and Clara Farkvam argued about that led to their divorce likely won't ever be known, but Clara walked away from the marriage with Farkvam's Saloon and six barrels of pepper whiskey while Ole got nothing.

"She must have been a rich girl," said John Humphrey, the current owner of the bar who researched the tavern's history. "Or she had a lawyer in the family."
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